America Is Ready for the 4-Day Workweek
18th March 2023
The question is, will people be working fewer hours? I am dubious. If the choice is between five days of eight hours versus four days of ten hours, a lot of salaried folk (who are now working fifty or sixty hours in in a nominal 40-hour week) will jump at it. It’s not clear how blue-collar workers (like policemen, firefighters, and factory workers) who depend on overtime to achieve a middle-class lifestyle will react.
March 20th, 2023 at 18:12
For some of those salaried people, they will still be working 50-60 hours per week. They will just be expected to do 15 hour days instead of 12 hour days. Even if the number of work days drops to 4, the volume of work will not change.